The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-04-18
IN outbreak of fire followed by showers of

an outbreak of fire followed by showers OF
ashes.
The barkentine Susan, from st. Johns,
\. F.. for Barbados, struck an iceberg and
sunk Several lives were lost
San Francisco papers of the 8th of April
report the wreck of the bark Eel Dorado off
Cape Flattery during heavy gale. The
Ell Dorado had 800 tons of coal on board
for San Francisco. Two survivors were
picked up after being thirty-six hours on
a raft without food eighteen, including
the CAPTAIN, persisted The American
schooner Champion was also wrecked and
it is feared that the ship ST. Stephen
foundered in the same gale in which the
Ell Dorado was wrecked
A Chico California; dispatch of April
9TH says: This evening as Mrs. Billion,
wife of Joseph Billion, wealthy land
owner, living one mile north of st. Johns
which is ten miles east of Orland, an d
their daughters, Annie and Maud with
w. IL. Weaver, an employee OF Billion,
were at supper, their Chinese cook opened
the dining-room door and shot Mrs.
Billion and then Weaver. After that he
fired four shots at Annie Billion without
anv taking effect He is good China
man." aged Is years, and could read and
write English He had been over three
years with the family and great favor
| ite No one seems to know the motive of
the murderer. The only explanation Of
fered is that the deed was committed out
of pure cussedness. Yesterday Mrs Billion
was cleaning the house, and the Chinaman
was made to assist In taking up the car
pets and beating them. He was cross and
angry because he had to do the work.
Irish Affairs.
LONDON, March BIN the House of
Lords Tonight, Lord Cardigan Conserva-
tive, presented bill providing for the pur
chase of Irish holdings, or, in other words,
for the abolition OF the system of owner
ship created by the Act of 1881. 1t was
proposed, he said to admit leaseholders to
| the benefits of the Act of 1881. The lease
| holders whose leases expired prior to 1881,
numbering 100, 900, were to be admitted to
the benefits of the Act of 1881 in the same
manner as those whose leases expired in
that year.
The Cabinet have decided to abandon the
clause of the Irish Criminal Law Amend
ment bill, which provides for changing the
| venue from Dublin to London in certain
classes OF criminal trials, thus practically
removing the greatest cause of Liberal
| Unionist opposition to the bill.
The National Liberal Federation League
has issued a summons for meeting to be
| held April 9th for the purpose of denounc
ing the proposed Irish coercion measures.
Scenes in the Commons.
LONDON, April 5th.-Those who wit
messed it are not likely to forget the scene
at Westminster in the small hours of Sat
urday morning. Some time previously to
the first division Mr.. Gladstone was OBJ
served to be indulging in gesticulations
which were apparently incomprehensible.
| The wild war whoop of the Irish members,
the threatening words and gesture of DR..
Tanner in front of the Treasury bench, the
fierce yells of privilege, the upsetting of
poor Sir Charles, and his rescue by Mr..
Akers-Douglass and Mr.. Walrond, who
placed him breathless in one of the door
keepers chairs-were all memorable sights
in their way, but none of them will live so
| long in history as the manner in which
Mr.. Gladstone reached out his hands, as if
| inviting divine Intervention, when the
| Speaker decided to put the cloture, and
raising his eyes to heaven, marched out of
the House precisely in the same manner
as Mr.. Pecksniff shook the dust off his feet
when he quilted in pious wrath the abode
! of the ChuZZlewits.
The second reading of the Irish. Crimes
! Act Amendment bill was formally moved
! in the House of Commons this afternoon
by BalfOur, Chief Secretary for Ireland.
Sir Bernard Samuelson, the Gladstonian
member from Bambury division of Oxford
shire, moved an amendment to the bill to
the effect that the bill would, if passed,
increase disorder in Ireland, endanger the
Union and the Empire, and therefore
should. be rejected
The Commons is practically taking a
weeks holiday, SO many members are pair
ing. The Government insists that the de-
bate on the Irish criminal law amendment
shall proceed, but will postpone the division
on the bill till the 18th instant
Steam WhaIer Eagle Lost With $50
Souls.
WASHINGTON March 31st.-A special to
the journal" from ST. Johns, N F., says:
a report has reached here of the total loss
of the sealing steamer Eagle, with a crew
of $50 men, off Bonavista bay. The
steamer was last seen by the steamer
Aurora on the night of the 18th instant,
near Funk's Island. A terrible sea was
running at the time Next morning the
Aurora could find no trace of the Eagle,
and nothing has been seen of the Inflated
vessel since. A message from Greecupond,
about 100 miles from here, says that Light
house keeper Cabot has boarded the seal
ing steamers Vanguard and Hector. Both
these vessels reported passing part of the
forecastle and board with the name
Eagle" near the spot where she was last |
seen.
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